IT Strategy | Page 34

More on innovation, and the lack thereof:
Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, says Silicon Valley is in trouble. In a new boo....

A big question one year ago: can anyone translate social networking prowess into success on election day?
The answer, judging by the Obama campaign, seems to be "yes."
The power of the campaign's social ....

My first thought upon hearing that Bell Labs was quitting basic physics research in favor of market-driven development was, Didn't they do that a while ago?
The answer is: pretty much. This is the formal ....

A final excerpt from my conversation with Vint Cerf (previous bits here; I'll get the whole thing online soon, with a shorter version set to appear in the print mag). Here, Cerf discusses the need for a na....

I headlined yesterday's post about Infosys buying Axon "Real Globalization," the idea being that globalization means more than companies from industrialized countries moving into new markets in search of c....

While we're worrying about data insecurity, (see previous post), here's another fun story:
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale pr....

"Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk," says the headline at Gizmodo.
There seems to be an easy fix, but it makes the folks who've been telling you that the iPhone is enterprise-....

John McCain's technology platform (discussed here previously) says he opposes network neutrality.
This strikes me as an area where it hurts McCain to be less familiar with quotidian technology like the ne....

Another sign of maturation for India's tech industry: Infosys buys UK-based consultancy Axon for about $750 million.
WSJ: The deal is designed to bolster Infosys's consulting business, which has struggled ....

NBC really scored with its online Olympic coverage, says the New York Times (headline: "Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo").
The Wall Street Journal headlines its article, "NBC Didn't Cash I....

The Obama campaign texted me about Biden as veep at 3:10 AM on Saturday, after the news had been published by the conventional press and after my bedtime, too. Some folks still hadn't gotten the text by da....

At SAP, software developer Kagermann prepares to hand off the CEO job to salesman Apotheker.
The handover has fed an irresistible narrative in financial markets: the software egghead who shoveled cash in....

Well, it's been three days since I blogged about a big, scary IT problem for the federal government, so I guess it's time to go again: "The government's main terrorist-watch-list system is hobbled by techn....